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Show Here tiarliold linked from whal Uiuk lm was reading. Hill replied that the volume, from which ho wai-eadiug wai-eadiug wan lhu "I.ile of Jt Hi-rcon David." (IVrinivii lau;'iil-J' on tin republican side. Ho ilml G. wiu-lhor ho would gay that the tele-gram tele-gram wan not true. G. 1 have, not paid a wool alx.ul it, I merely nuked what book it wan. J Hill. 'lhu extract in tht hook i n.k.-ii hum thu New York -- ol l.vil, but hero in General Gl'anlV lef imioi.y he lure. Hi com mil tee on toe conduct ol the war, taken on the Hlh ot February. ISOo. You holiev-Unit, holiev-Unit, don't you? J Laughlei j Hill here read Grant's testimony (icloro the Coinuiitli-e exclaiming the rea .uli why he opposed lhu exchange of prisoner, and which Were in elled lhu a nun km yiven in the telegram (piotut from lhu I'i it m w , one M-nleneu heme, : "J did not deem it udvisah.ti or ju.-t lo reinforce lhu enemy, and an immediate immedi-ate resumption ot .exch.uigf .t would have had that elloct without any cor-rc-npondMig benefit." Hill quoted n letter ti'Mi Junius Henri Browne, in tho Jninii,-, that General Butler mid m a apeech at Lowvll, Miua., thai he had been prompted hy Stanton iu put forward the negro question in order to complicate the exchange ol pn-on-om, Browne's comment being thai "Stuniofi was lhe digger ol tut: unnamed un-named gn.vis winch crowded the vicinity ot every aoiithern pri-mi with never-to-be-forgot leu horrors." Hih hummed up lilti argument and aid wiial hvi we proved.' Imve proved that lhu lederal autin .r il n-f-broke tint cartel deliberately; tnat ihey relilri'd to reopen the carte, when appioachetl by Mr. Stephen-, ai a CO'llllllMlullor Solely Oil lilt ' l: n i :i.l of huuiamty. I have proved to l liny inadu medi.'inc tmntrahaiid oMv.ir, and liierehy letl ua lo the In-.ul noceMity of Mipilying tin-primer-i with Mich medicine an c.mid ne itnpnvi-ei.l iu lhe coulexteracv; l!iatl;uy refiificd U allow t'ueir own -lurgeoim to accompany their prison- ' era to liie South; that lhe confederate ' aiitiioniHd proposed a return ol the flick and wouudeil without with-out equivalent in August, ltdl; thai you never deigntd to reply till December, lN.l, that your Inh ctliiers in command gave a- a reason thai lliey would not ex-ih.mge, ex-ih.mge, that it would he. humane to pri.-oncrs but cruelty to the soldiers in ihe li- ki. ll was part of your military pohcy to let your prisoners sutler! ruiner than that tho confederacy ii-.uld have an inerea.-eol iu military j Jorce; Ih it with all liie horror. you j rave made s ic'n a noise almut as oc-1 curring at Andersonville, greater horrors hor-rors occurred in prison wiieru yuu j held our lnops, and tliat the percent-! age of death was 3 per cent, creator 1 among our prisoners in your hands ' than among yours in our hands. Wuen luo gentleman from Maine rises naiu to givo birth lo Hint un-miticaied un-miticaied etlusion of genius without fact to etifttain it, in which he says: "And here before my Gud, measuring my wonli, knowing their full int-nt and import, 1 declare that neither the deeds ol the Duke ot Alva in the low Countries, nor Iho ruu-ssacro of St. Bartholomew, nor the thumbscrew; and engines of torture of the Spauinb iuq'ii,-:tr-n bc-in to compare in atrocity atro-city wiih the hideous crime of Ander-sonvilie," Ander-sonvilie," let him add, and thai the atrocities there do no compare with those ot Elunra, Fort Douglass or Fort Delaware, and of ail, butu at Auder-sorivilly Auder-sorivilly and Fluiiru, tho confiierate ""V. r:.ment alauds acquitleil from ail respu......., . i Hill quot- ed a speech of JeUersou Dai w i.... considerate soldiers after the retreat ol" General MeClellan from before Richmond, in which he said the crowning glory of our soldiers is their humanity to the nounded and prisoners prison-ers who had fallen into their hands. He also referred to tho fact, that the Hichinond Examiner, which Blaine had quoted as authority against Davis, had staled that the humanity and generosity of Davis would ruin the confederacy. My message ti lhe gentleman from Maine is this: There are no confederates in tnis house, but the south is here, and here she intends in-tends to remain. LElltuUS':ls-'c monstrations on the democratic side and galleries. Let fanaticism do its work, let it pass ils nullifying act, trample on the constitution, abro gale the pledges of the fathers, incite raids on our people, multiply infidelities till they shall be like stars of heaven or sands on the sea shore, without number, but for ad these your iniquities the south will never again seek ft remedy in the madness oi another secession. Renewed applause. ap-plause. We are here; we are in our lather's house, our brothers, our companions; com-panions; we are at home, lhauk God. Enthusiastic applause. We come to gratify no vengeance, to retaliate no wrongs, to resent no past insults, lo reopen no strife. Wo come with a patriotic purpose, to do whatever is in our powei lo restore an honest, economical and cons itutional administration admin-istration of the government. We come charging on the Union no wrong to us. ' The Union never wronged lhe south. The Union has been an unmixed blessing to every section," every stats, every man of every color in America. We charge all our wrongs to that higher law fanaticism, wiucn never Kept, a ( pledge or a law. We sought to leave e an association with those who would J not keep fidelity to the covenant. ) We sought to go by ourselves, but bo , far as having lost fidelity to tlio constitution con-stitution we hugged it to our bosom, i carried it with us. Bravo Union meu ot the north, followers of Webster and Fillmore, Gas? and Douglas, men who fought lor the Union, (or lhe sake of the union you who ceused to fight when tiie bailie ended and the sword was sheathed, with you we have no quarrel; we felt your heavy arm in the midst of the struggle, but above the roar of cannon wo heard your voice of kindness, calling your brothers broth-ers to come back. Wo are here to co-oporato with you, to do whatever we can, in spite of all our sorrows; to rebuild the union; to restore peace; to bo a blessing to the country; to make the true union what our lathers intendtd it should be the glory of America the bltWmg of humanity; humani-ty; but you, gentlemen, who persecuted persecu-ted us by your infidelities until you drove us out of Lhe Union, you who then claimed to be the only triends ot the Union which you before denounced de-nounced aa "a league with death and a covenant with hell," you who follow fol-low up tho war when the soldiers who fought it have m:ule peace i.nd gon to their homes, to you wc have no concessions con-cessions to make. Martyrs owe no apology apol-ogy to tyrant", and while we are realty to make every sacrifice for the Union, i we have hut one ambition, to add our i political power to the patriotic Union i men, in order to compel fanaticism 1 to obey the laws, and live in tae i Union according to the constitution. i Wo do not propose to compel you by oaths, tor you never kept them. We wronged the Union grievously when we li It it to be weiders, and rent and Lorn by men who h id d.-nouiicid it as a "league with di ath and a covenant w-Uli hell." Wc iisk you uf the republican republi-can parly to me above all your ani-ninsilicH, ani-ninsilicH, to forget your old sin. hul tiH unite, to repair the wrongs ol that ilirdraciod and oppressed coiinlry. Let us turn our backs on the past; let it be naid in the luiuro that ho shall lu the greatest, truest, ablest patriot whu nhall do lhu moat to repair ; past wrongs, and promote Iho glories ol ihe lotiire. As Hill liui-ihed Garfield took the Moor. Tl.o debate wa interrnpbd by u mchniigi! honi the ccuate announcing action in connection with the death of Andrew Johnson. MoFai-huid io-e lo oner the mmal i-cM.lutions ot rc-poet, but in view ol the inlcn.ie intereit manife.-led in the arum fly ilelt.de, ho ollered to defer tin- enlogie-n till to morrow. To that, hotv.-w r, Keliy objected as irregular and iinpie tdented, and thu ofl-T was withdrawn. The. prnceediiig-f of the day w ere c!oh d with speeches of eulogy on Andrew Johnson. |